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Cylance Hacks Google Office Building Management System 46

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the ghost-in-the-machine dept.
Gunkerty Jeb writes "Industrial control minded researchers from the security firm Cylance launched a custom exploit against a building management system deployed at Google's Sydney, Australia office, gaining access to a configuration file containing device administration passwords that could be used to gain complete control of the device in question. This vulnerability in Tridium's Niagara framework affects an unknown number of organizations aside from Google. In fact, Tridium claims on its website that 'there are over 245,000 instances of the Niagara Framework deployed worldwide.' Cylance said its scans revealed some 25,000 similarly vulnerable systems facing the Internet."

Comment: Self identifying targets (Score 1) 159

So when a government attacker puts a drone over you, they can probably also watch for the traffic generated by the detector. They'll see an e-mail, SMS, tweet or whatever sent from/to MostWanted7@KillTarget.Org and confirm your identity just before they launch the missile.

Comment: Re:The reason terrorists keep terrorizing (Score 1) 317

by asifyoucare (#43526505) Attached to: I paid attention to news of the Marathon bomb ...
No. If you tried to allay the terrorists' concerns then a passionate but rational person might conclude that future terrorism would help their own cause. Listening to terrorists is terrible public policy. If I was in government and a terrorist killed people to promote cause X, I'd at least ignore cause X even if I had previously been sympathetic to it.

Comment: Re:Titan (Score 1) 1313

by asifyoucare (#42966533) Attached to: US CEO Says French Workers Have Three-Hour Work Day
I've visited China twice, once this year, and I never saw anyone take a nap. There aren't even the facilities for it. That said, at the places I visited (Beijing, Xian, and Guangzhou) I didn't see poor working conditions, though admittedly I was working in offices rather than assembly lines. Office and plants seemed similar in China to anywhere else.

Comment: Not IF but WHEN (Score 2) 167

by asifyoucare (#42962387) Attached to: How To Safeguard Loose Nukes
The terrorists will one day obtain enough fissionable material to make a bomb. Given that there were about 2,000 cases of unauthorised trading and probably even more unknown cases, and they might have it already. Hopefully they'll blow themselves up accidentally. Does anyone trust that Pakistan will never donate weapons-grade Uranium to terrorists, even if central government persists? If Pakistan collapses we're all in deep trouble.

"I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes. Just then, he vanished.

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